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• Energy and the Environment
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  Nature of Water
   
  

  Water turbine

  A water turbine is a rotary engine that takes energy from moving water. Water turbines were developed in the nineteenth century and were widely used for industrial power prior to electrical grids. ... > more
• Air Quality
  Environmental Science
  Air Pollution
  Pollution
  Environmental Issues
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  Air conditioning

  An air conditioner (AC or air-con) is an appliance or mechanism designed to extract heat from an area using a refrigeration cycle. In construction, a complete system of heating, ventilation and air ... > more
• Tsunamis
  Natural Disasters
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  Earthquakes
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  Tsunami

  A tsunami is a series of waves generated when water in a lake or the sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale. Earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions and large meteorite impacts all have the ... > more
• Energy Technology
  Electricity
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  Solar Energy
  Electronics
  Technology
   
  

  Transformer

  A transformer is an electrical device that transfers energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling with no moving parts. A transformer comprises two or more coupled windings, or a single ... > more
• Electricity
  Energy Technology
  Solar Energy
  Wind Energy
  Fuel Cells
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  Distributed generation

  Distributed generation is a new trend in the generation of heat and electrical power. The concept permits the "consumer", who is generating heat or electricity for their own needs, to send their ... > more
• Wind Energy
  Energy and the Environment
  Renewable Energy
  Electricity
  Environmental Science
  Energy Technology
   
  

  Wind turbine

  A wind turbine is a machine for converting the mechanical energy in wind into electrical energy. If the mechanical energy is used directly by machinery, such as a pump or grinding stones, the machine ... > more
• Nanotechnology
  Physics
  Graphene
  Spintronics
  Technology
  Quantum Physics
   
  

  Nanowire

  A nanowire is a wire of dimensions of the order of a nanometer (10−9 meters). Alternatively, nanowires can be defined as structures that have a lateral size constrained to tens of nanometers or ... > more
• Sports Science
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  Inorganic Chemistry
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  Nature of Water
   
  

  Cobalt

  Cobalt is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Co and atomic number 27. Cobalt is a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal, a chemical element with symbol Co. It is found in ... > more
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  Charles Darwin
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  Marine Biology
  Quantum Physics
  Evolution
   
  

  Barnacle

  A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea. Barnacles often attach themselves to human-made structures, sometimes to the structure's ... > more
• Sports Science
  Chemistry
  Inorganic Chemistry
  Graphene
  Spintronics
  Thermodynamics
   
  

  Aluminium

  Aluminium or aluminum is the chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Al and atomic number 13. It is a silvery and ductile member of the poor metal group of chemical elements. ... > more
• Inorganic Chemistry
  Chemistry
  Sports Science
  Physics
  Materials Science
  Nature of Water
   
  

  Iridium

  Iridium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ir and atomic number 77. A dense, very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum family, iridium is used in ... > more
• Geology
  Nature of Water
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  Atmosphere
  Floods
  Water
   
  

  Sedimentary rock

  Sedimentary rock is one of the three main rock groups (along with igneous and metamorphic rocks) and is formed in four main ways: by the deposition of the weathered remains of other rocks (known as ... > more

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